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So we are re-inventing patched a.out files, back when UNIX systems started to introduce dynamic loading, before ELF was invented?

Advocates of static linking keep forgetting once upon a time UNIX only had static linking, then we had overlays, and eventually dynamic linking came to be.

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Of course, I remember those times very well.

And I also remember very well that dynamic linking appeared ONLY because we were catastrophically short on memory; everything else was added much later.

Now we have plenty of memory, and we can very well return to our blessed roots!

Not at all, the pain of doing plugins with UNIX IPC was another one.

Ah, you have lots of memory, we're very wealthy. /s

There is no RAM shortage in Ba-Sing-Se

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